Publications |

Context matters: a response to Autzen and Okasha’s reply to Takacs and Bourrat

(in press). Biological Theory.

Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat

Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality

(2024). European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14(1), 9.

Pierrick Bourrat

Moving past conventionalism about multilevel selection

(forthcoming). Erkenntnis.

Pierrick Bourrat

Evolutionary transitions in individuality and life cycle closure

(forthcoming). Philosophy of Science.

Guilhem Doulcier, Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat

From fitness-centered to trait-centered explanations: what evolutionary transitions in individuality teach us about fitness

(forthcoming). Philosophy of Science.

Peter Takacs, Guilhem Doulcier, Pierrick Bourrat

Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch

(2023). Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), pp. 277-286.

Paul Griffiths, Pierrick Bourrat

Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal

(2023). Synthese, 202(3), 72.

Pierrick Bourrat

A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes?

(2023). Biology & Philosophy, 38(4), 33.

Pierrick Bourrat

A Pricean formalization of Gaia

(2023). Philosophy of Science, 90(3), pp. 704-720.

Pierrick Bourrat

What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?

(2023). Oikos, 2023(8), e10024.

Pierrick Bourrat, William Godsoe, Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier, Werner Ulrich, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Matthijs van Veelen

The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations

(2023).Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, 111414.

Matthew C. Nitschke, Andrew J. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, Paul B. Rainey

When local causes are more explanatorily useful

(2023). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e185.

Pierrick Bourrat

A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection

(2022). Biological Theory, 17(4), pp. 263-275.

Pierrick Bourrat

Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor

(2022). ELife, 11, e73715.

Pierrick Bourrat, Guilhem Doulcier, Caroline J. Rose, Paul B. Rainey, Katrin Hammerschmidt

Grains of description in biological and cultural transmission

(2022). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3–4), pp. 185-202.

Pierrick Bourrat, Mathieu Charbonneau

Division of labor and fitness decoupling in evolutionary transitions in individuality

(2022). In M. Herron, W. C. Ratcliff, & P. L. Conlin (Eds.), The Evolution of Multicellularity, CRC Press (pp. 227-248).

Guilhem Doulcier, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Pierrick Bourrat

On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective

(2022). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, pp. 87–98.

Qiaoying Lu, Pierrick Bourrat

The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness

(2022). Biology & Philosophy, 37(2), 12.

Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat

Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory

(2022). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 91, pp. 201–210.

Pierrick Bourrat

Fitness: Static or dynamic?

(2021). European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(4), 112.

Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat

Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties

(in press). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Pierrick Bourrat

Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately

(2021). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 90, 61–67.

Pierrick Bourrat

Review of 'Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis,' by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb

(2021). BSPS.

Pierrick Bourrat

Target Article: Are biological traits explained by their ‘selected effect’ functions?

(in press). Australasian Philosophical Review.

Joshua Christie, Carl Brusse, Pierrick Bourrat, Peter Takacs, Paul Griffiths

Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection

(2021). Cambridge University Press.

Pierrick Bourrat

Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection

Heritability, causal influence and locality

(2021). Synthese, 198, pp. 6689–6715.

Pierrick Bourrat

Measuring Causal Invariance Formally

(2021). Entropy, 23(6), 690.

Pierrick Bourrat

Transitions in Individuality: A formal analysis

(2021). Transitions in Individuality: A formal analysis. Synthese, 198, pp. 3699–3731.

Pierrick Bourrat

The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine

(in press). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Pierrick Bourrat, Paul Griffiths

Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution

(2021). Synthese, 199(3–4), pp. 5815–5836.

Mathieu Charbonneau, Pierrick Bourrat

Taming Fitness: Organism-Environment Interdependencies Preclude Long-Term Fitness Forecasting

(2021). BioEssays, 43(1).

Guilhem Doulcier, Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat

Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation

(2021). In J. R. Liddle & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion (pp. 296–314).

Pierrick Bourrat, Viciana, Hugo

Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability

(2020). Philosophy of Science, 87(5), pp. 1073–1083.

Pierrick Bourrat

Natural selection and the reference grain problem

(2020). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 80, pp. 1–8.

Pierrick Bourrat

Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality

(2020). Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(3), pp. 426–436.

Andrew J. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, Paul B. Rainey

On Calcott’s permissive and instructive cause distinction

(2019). Biology & Philosophy, 34(1), 1.

Pierrick Bourrat

Variation of information as a measure of one-to-one causal specificity

(2019). European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9(1), 11.

Pierrick Bourrat

Evolution is about Populations, but its Causes are about Individuals

(2019). Evolution is about Populations, but its Causes are about Individuals. Biological Theory, 14(4), 254–266.

Pierrick Bourrat

In what sense can there be evolution by natural selection without perfect inheritance?

(2019). International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 32(1), pp. 13–31.

Pierrick Bourrat

Evolutionary transitions in heritability and individuality

(2019). Theory in Biosciences, 138(2), pp. 305–323.

Pierrick Bourrat

Genetic Relatedness

(2019). In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer.

Pierrick Bourrat

Adaptations: Product of Evolution

(2019). In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1–4). Springer International Publishing.

Pierrick Bourrat

Have Causal Claims About the Gut Microbiome Been Over-Hyped?

(2018). BioEssays, 40(12), 1800178.

Pierrick Bourrat

Natural selection and drift as individual-level causes of evolution

(2018). Acta Biotheoretica, 66(3), pp. 159–176.

Pierrick Bourrat

Multispecies individuals

(2018). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 40(2).

Pierrick Bourrat, Paul E. Griffiths

The Evolutionary Gene and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

(2018). The British Journal For The Philosophy of Science, 69(3), pp. 775–800.

Qiaoying Lu, Pierrick Bourrat

Replication and Reproduction

(2018). Replication and Reproduction. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

John Wilkins, Pierrick Bourrat

Review of 'Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives,' by Scott Lidgard and Lynn Nyhart

(2017). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Pierrick Bourrat

Why the missing heritability might not be in the DNA

(2017). BioEssays, 39(7).

Pierrick Bourrat, Qiaoying Lu, Eva Jablonka

Explaining Drift from a Deterministic Setting

(2017). Biological Theory, 12(1), 27–38.

Pierrick Bourrat

Dissolving the missing heritability problem

(2017). Philosophy of Science, 84(5), pp. 1055–1067.

Pierrick Bourrat, Qiaoying Lu

Review of 'Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap,' by Michaelis Michael

(2017). Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95(4), 816–819.

Pierrick Bourrat

Interpreting Heritability Causally

(2017). Philosophy of Science, 84(1), pp. 14–34.

Kate E. Lynch, Pierrick Bourrat

Generalizing Contextual Analysis

(2016). Acta Biotheoretica, 64(2), pp. 197–217.

Pierrick Bourrat

Sélection Naturelle

(2016). In M. Kristanek (Ed.), Encyclopédie Philosophique.

Pierrick Bourrat

How to Read ‘Heritability’ in the Recipe Approach to Natural Selection

(2015). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 66(4), pp. 883–903.

Pierrick Bourrat

Distinguishing natural selection from other evolutionary processes in the evolution of altruism

(2015). Biological Theory, 10(4), pp. 311–321.

Pierrick Bourrat

Levels of selection are artefacts of different fitness temporal measures

(2015). Ratio, 28(1), pp. 40–50.

Pierrick Bourrat

Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: Synthesis of different theories

(2015). In T. Heams, P. Huneman, G. Lecointre, & M. Silberstein (Eds.), Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences (pp. 761–780).

Pierrick Bourrat

Levels, time and fitness in evolutionary transitions in individuality

(2015). Philosophy & Theory in Biology, 7.

Pierrick Bourrat

From Survivors to Replicators: Evolution by Natural Selection Revisited

(2014). Biology & Philosophy, 29(4), pp. 517–538.

Pierrick Bourrat

Reconceptualising Evolution by Natural Selection

(2014). PhD Thesis, The University of Sydney.

Pierrick Bourrat

Testing More Specific Hypotheses and Going beyond Correlations in the Origins and Evolution of Religious Beliefs. Comment on Ara Norenzayan's Book 'Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict'

(2013). International Cognition and Culture Institute.

Pierrick Bourrat

Small things, big consequences: Microbiological perspectives on biology

(2013). In K. Kampourakis (Ed.), The Philosophy of Biology, (pp. 373–394).

Michael J. Duncan, Pierrick Bourrat, Jennifer DeBerardinis, Maureen A. O’Malley

L’évolution de la religion d’un point de vue darwinien: Synthèse des différentes théories

(2015). T. Heams, P. Huneman, G. Lecointre, & M. Silberstein (Eds.). Les Mondes Darwiniens (pp. 1125–1258).

Pierrick Bourrat

Supernatural Punishment and Individual Social Compliance across Cultures

(2011). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2(1), pp. 119–134.

Pierrick Bourrat, Quentin D. Atkinson, Robin I.M. Dunbar

Surveillance Cues Enhance Moral Condemnation

(2011) Evolutionary psychology, 9(2), pp. 193–199.

Pierrick Bourrat, Nicolas Baumard, Ryan McKay

Is God an Adaptation? Essay Review on 'The Evolution of God,' by Robert Wright

(2011). Philosophia, 39(2), 397–408.

Hugo Viciana, Pierrick Bourrat

Beliefs about God, the Afterlife and Morality Support the Role of Supernatural Policing in Human Cooperation

(2011). Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(1), pp. 41–49.

Quentin D. Atkinson, Pierrick Bourrat